Number of unaffiliated votes over Democrats: 20,983
Number of unaffiliated votes over Republicans: 32,009

Some 3.2 million ballots were mailed to active voters, according to the Secretary of State’s office, and 2,433,687 ballots have been returned — about 76 percent. In the last midterm election in 2014, 54.7 percent of eligible Coloradans voted.

Overall, women returned 99,343 more ballots than men, 51.5 percent to 47.4 percent.

Of the ballots returned from registered Democrats, 59 percent are women and 40 percent are men. That’s the biggest disparity among the groups, with Republicans showing a 3 percent difference — 51 percent from men vs 48 percent from women — and unaffiliated voters a 4 percent difference, 51 percent men to 47 percent women.

While Republicans aged 41-60 have returned the most ballots — 298,157 — unaffiliated voters make up two of the next three largest blocs:

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet said Monday he wants to commit $1 trillion for underwriting research and projects to address climate change, set aside about one-third of U.S. lands and ocean territory for conservation and reach net-zero U.S. emissions by midcentury.

From liberal firebrands Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to moderates Joe Biden and John Hickenlooper, nearly the entire 2020 Democratic presidential field agrees that the federal minimum wage should be more than doubled, to $15 an hour.